I wanted to share this 1923 Peru 1 sol that I picked up today. I think the design is pretty neat. I was checking out a new coin shop for the...
For the last two years or so, I have been focusing exclusively on foreign coins since the prices of U.S. coins was so high for the coins I needed,...
Can anyone tell me what this is? My guess is it's from a Himalayan nation or else an Indian state.
I'm getting sick of receiving empty envelopes in the mail because the person who shipped it didn't know how to package their coin. It happened...
I got this one in the mail today. 1972 Bahamas 5 dollars. Besides being beautiful, it was really a steal. It is more than an ounce of silver, but...
I got this in the mail today. 2012 50 Tenge from Kazakhstan. I love praying mantises so I had to have this.
I'm curious what people do with their doubles, i.e. coins that you have more than one copy of. When I first started I was just hoarding...
Along with the Vatican, San Marino has some of the most consistently beautiful coins I've seen, most in a Renaissance style. Here are the ones I...
I recently discovered to my dismay that eBay has eliminated wildcard searches. In other words, before if I wanted to search for all Greek coins...
I posted an example of each type of Italian coin I have as an album on my page. I only posted one side on most to save time. Check it out if...
What would be the term to describe this type of error? This coin was in almost uncirculated condition, so I was kind of disappointed to see the...
I first saw one of these when someone posted one on here (it may have been JBlonde). I really wanted one, and today I found this in the coin shop...
I bought this French note today. I thought it was ruined at first because I could see someone wrote on it, but when I looked closer I read...
I saw this auction and bid on it, but I bid way below the value because I thought I seemed suspicious. I got outbid, which was OK since I was...
This was a great auction win for me. Sometimes I see things listed for way less than they're worth and I bid a small amount just for the heck of...
I saw this auction on eBay, with the coin described in the title as "mostly uncirculated." Reminds me of the Princess Bride character being...
The 1932 Brazil 1000 reis is one of the lowest mintages in the series at 56,000. Krause's prices are low in my opinion since when these come up...
Yes, I've been collecting for years and I probably should know this, but I don't so I'm going to go ahead and ask. What do people do with the...
As the title says, how do overdates happen? Just to make sure I'm using the correct term, I mean when one number is on top of another on a coin....
I got this in the mail today. It's the most money I've spent on a single coin thus far in my collecting life. Usually most coins I buy are between...
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